GRE Word List
PARQUET
floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece
The meaning of the word parquet is floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece.
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ignoble | unworthy; not noble; dishonorable; Ex. ignoble deed |
bar | railing in a courtroom; legal profession; vertical line dividing a staff into equal measures; Ex. prisoner at the bar; V: shut in or out with bars; forbid; exclude; CF. barrister |
floe | flat mass of floating ice |
satellite | small body revolving around a larger one |
capsize | (of a boat) turn over |
reticent | inclined to silence; uncommunicative; reserved; Ex. He was reticent about the reasons; N. reticence |
layman | man who is not a cleric; man who is nonprofessional |
fancier | breeder or dealer of animals; one who has a special interest, as for raising specific plant or animal |
inestimable | impossible to estimate; (apprec) invaluable; of immeasurable worth |
cistern | reservoir or water tank |