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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|---|---|
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| freebooter | pirate |
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |