GRE Word List
ROCOCO
rococo work or style
The meaning of the word rococo is rococo work or style.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant) |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| 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 |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |