GRE Word List
TESSELLATED
having a checkered appearance
The meaning of the word tessellated is having a checkered appearance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| portly | dignified |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |