GRE Word List
ROCOCO
rococo work or style
The meaning of the word rococo is rococo work or style.
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|---|---|
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| bereaved | suffering the death of a loved one |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |