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 |
|---|---|
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| pitfall | trap |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| fleck | streak |
| query | question |