GRE Word List
ADAGE
a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation
The meaning of the word adage is a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |