GRE Word List
MOSAIC
a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns
The meaning of the word mosaic is a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |