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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |