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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| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |