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 |
|---|---|
| muted | being mute : silent |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
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| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |