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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antithesisthe direct opposite
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ambiguousdoubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness
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