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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| score | twenty |
| unanimity | the quality or state of being unanimous |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| imbroglio | an acutely painful or embarrassing misunderstanding |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |