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 |
|---|---|
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| season | a time characterized by a particular circumstance or feature |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |