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 |
|---|---|
| porridge | a soft food made by boiling meal of grains or legumes in milk or water until thick |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| skeptic | an adherent or advocate of skepticism |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| ramification | branch |