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 |
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| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
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| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
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