GRE Word List
ROSEATE
resembling a rose especially in color
The meaning of the word roseate is resembling a rose especially in color.
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| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |