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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| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
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| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |