GRE Word List
MONOCHROME
a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue
The meaning of the word monochrome is a painting, drawing, or photograph in a single hue.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |