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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| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| veracious | truthful |
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| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
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| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| seismic | of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |