GRE Word List
ORNATE
marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric
The meaning of the word ornate is marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |