GRE Word List
MATINEE
a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon
The meaning of the word matinee is a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| brooch | an ornament that is held by a pin or clasp and is worn at or near the neck |
| adroit | having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |