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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| viable | capable of living |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| pundit | pandit |
| cunning | dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |