GRE Word List
TESSELLATED
having a checkered appearance
The meaning of the word tessellated is having a checkered appearance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |