GRE Word List
GASTRONOMY
the art or science of good eating
The meaning of the word gastronomy is the art or science of good eating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glossary | a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| aptitude | inclination |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |