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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devolveto pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another
jabberto talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly
friezea heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface
glamoran exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness
allegorythe expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence
distractto draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time
etymologythe 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
asymmetrichaving two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical