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 |
|---|---|
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| verge | brink |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| rightful | just |
| plane | airplane |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |