GRE Word List
GUSTO
an individual or special taste
The meaning of the word gusto is an individual or special taste.
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| 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 |
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| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
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