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 |
|---|---|
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |