GRE Word List
VIGNETTE
a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper
The meaning of the word vignette is a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |