GRE Word List
FLORID
very flowery in style : ornate
The meaning of the word florid is very flowery in style : ornate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| juncture | a point of time |