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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| transcribe | to make a written copy of |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |