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 |
|---|---|
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |