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.
Random words
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dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
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 |
exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
unkempt | not combed |
chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
overblown | past the prime of bloom |