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 |
|---|---|
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| expatriate | banish |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |