GRE Word List

STIPPLE

to engrave by means of dots and flicks

The meaning of the word stipple is to engrave by means of dots and flicks.

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WordMeaning
fancifulmarked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
indissolublenot dissoluble
adventthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
parallelextending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant
fructifyto bear fruit
franticemotionally out of control
inebriateone who is drunk
cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
sophisticateddeprived of native or original simplicity: such as
formalitycompliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony