GRE Word List
LINEAMENTS
an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face
The meaning of the word lineaments is an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| obstinate | stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| vixen | a female fox |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |