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 |
|---|---|
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| heed | to pay attention |
| ebullient | boiling |