GRE Word List
MUSTY
impaired by damp or mildew : moldy
The meaning of the word musty is impaired by damp or mildew : moldy.
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| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| brink | edge |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |