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 |
|---|---|
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| dominate | rule |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| reverberate | reflect |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |