GRE Word List
RHETORIC
the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as
The meaning of the word rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| 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 |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |