GRE Word List
ALLEGORY
the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence
The meaning of the word allegory is the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| dart | a light spear |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |