GRE Word List
PIGMENT
a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials
The meaning of the word pigment is a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |