GRE Word List
HIEROGLYPHIC
written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters
The meaning of the word hieroglyphic is written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |