GRE vocabulary
baroque
extravagantly ornate and elaborate in style
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Baroque in a sentence
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The mansion's baroque interior dripped with gilt and carving.
Synonyms
Antonyms
plainaustere
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Questions about “baroque”
Baroque (adjective) means extravagantly ornate and elaborate in style
Here is baroque used in an example sentence: "The mansion's baroque interior dripped with gilt and carving."
Common synonyms for baroque include ornate, elaborate, florid, flamboyant.
Antonyms of baroque include plain, austere.
Baroque is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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