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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| Word | Meaning |
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| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |