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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| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
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| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
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| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
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