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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| hortatory | hortative |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |