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 |
|---|---|
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| swill | wash |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |