GRE Word List
INCRUSTATION
a crust or hard coating
The meaning of the word incrustation is a crust or hard coating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |