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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| meddlesome | given to meddling |
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| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| passe | past one's prime |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |