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 |
|---|---|
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |