GRE Word List
FRINGE
an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band
The meaning of the word fringe is an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |