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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |