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 |
|---|---|
| hap | happening |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| antecede | precede |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| postulate | demand |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |