GRE Word List
FRESCO
the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments
The meaning of the word fresco is the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments.
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| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| rummage | to make a thorough search or investigation |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| vixen | a female fox |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |