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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penitentfeeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant
mutterto utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed
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piebaldcomposed of incongruous parts
illusorybased on or producing illusion : deceptive
jetsamthe part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore
trajectorythe curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space
testyeasily annoyed : irritable
maritalof or relating to marriage or the married state
papyrusa tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley