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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
