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 |
|---|---|
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |