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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| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| energize | to make energetic, vigorous, or active |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |