GRE Word List
MOTIF
a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
The meaning of the word motif is a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bliss | complete happiness |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| laud | praise |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |