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 |
|---|---|
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |