GRE Word List
GLAMOR
an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness
The meaning of the word glamor is an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness.
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| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
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