GRE Word List
GASTRONOMY
art and science of preparing and serving good food; CF. gastronome
The meaning of the word gastronomy is art and science of preparing and serving good food; CF. gastronome.
Random words
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tactful | careful no to cause offence; OP. tactless |
withdrawn | introverted; retiring; remote |
verisimilar | having the appearance of truth or reality; probable or likely to be true; plausible |
botch | mismanage; blow |
conception | beginning; forming of an idea; fertilization; V. conceive: form an idea in the mind; devise; become pregnant; CF. inception |
preternatural | beyond what is normal in nature; supernatural; Ex. preternatural strength/forces |
transition | going from one state of action to another |
charlatan | quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) |
hover | hang about; (of birds or aircraft) stay in the air in one place; (of people) wait nearby; stay around one place; waver; be in an uncertain state |
broil | cook by direct heat; N. |