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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evasivetending or intended to evade : equivocal
acerbitythe quality of being acerbic
sheatheto put into or furnish with a sheath
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morticianundertaker
secularof or relating to the worldly or temporal
incorporealnot corporeal : having no material body or form
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tenuoushaving little substance or strength : flimsy
posthumousborn after the death of the father