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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ordeala primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control
incurto become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself
wangleto resort to trickery or devious methods
transparenthaving the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid
stoica member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c.
suckleto give milk to from the breast or udder
lumberto move ponderously
impetusa driving force : impulse
jovialcharacterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly
satyra sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry