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 |
|---|---|
| reckon | count |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |