GRE Word List
GRACIOUS
marked by kindness and courtesy
The meaning of the word gracious is marked by kindness and courtesy.
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| enrapture | to fill with delight |
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| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
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| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |