GRE Word List
PIEBALD
composed of incongruous parts
The meaning of the word piebald is composed of incongruous parts.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |