GRE Word List

TESSELLATED

having a checkered appearance

The meaning of the word tessellated is having a checkered appearance.

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genteelhaving an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish
megalomaniaa mania (see mania
prudea person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum
isotopeany of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties
afterlifean existence after death
facsimilean exact copy
perpetrateto bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit
impedeto interfere with or slow the progress of
rebusa representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound
solsticeeither of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21