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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |