GRE Word List
GUISE
a form or style of dress : costume
The meaning of the word guise is a form or style of dress : costume.
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| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| dissension | disagreement |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |