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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| nadir | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the zenith and vertically downward from the observer |
| clip | encompass |