GRE Word List

LIGNEOUS

of or resembling wood

The meaning of the word ligneous is of or resembling wood.

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malingererto pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work)
seemlygood-looking
engagingtending to draw favorable attention or interest : attractive
manneredhaving manners of a specified kind
penancean act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification
frescothe art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments
disburseto pay out : expend especially from a fund
deviseto form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent
cavaliermarked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
agilitythe quality or state of being agile : nimbleness