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 |
|---|---|
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| pilfer | steal |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| dour | stern |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| reverie | daydream |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |