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 |
|---|---|
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| nautical | of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |