GRE Word List
VIRTUOSO
one who excels in the technique of an art
The meaning of the word virtuoso is one who excels in the technique of an art.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| bulk | magnitude |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |