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 |
|---|---|
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| sidetrack | siding |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| drab | slattern |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |