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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| upshot | the final result : outcome |
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| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
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| antiquity | ancient times |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| ensconce | shelter |