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 |
|---|---|
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| aria | air |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| defer | put off |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |