GRE Word List
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
The meaning of the word spectrum is 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.
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husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
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alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
quietude | a quiet state : repose |
facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
finery | ornament |
pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
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trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |