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 |
|---|---|
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| isotope | any 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 |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| facsimile | an exact copy |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| solstice | either 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 |