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 |
|---|---|
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| microcosm | a little world |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |