GRE Word List
PREAMBLE
an introductory statement
The meaning of the word preamble is an introductory statement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| colloquy | conversation |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| hap | happening |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |