GRE Word List
FOLIAGE
a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches for architectural ornamentation
The meaning of the word foliage is a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches for architectural ornamentation.
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| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| scotch | scottish |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |