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 |
|---|---|
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| influx | a coming in |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| ecstasy | a state of overwhelming emotion |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |