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 |
|---|---|
| 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") |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| sublimate | sublime |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| tyranny | oppressive power |