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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verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |