GRE Word List
PARQUET
to furnish with a floor of parquet
The meaning of the word parquet is to furnish with a floor of parquet.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| engender | beget |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |