GRE Word List
SINUOUS
of a serpentine or wavy form : winding
The meaning of the word sinuous is of a serpentine or wavy form : winding.
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| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |