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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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| withdrawn | introverted; retiring; remote |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. |
