GRE Word List
COMMUNE
small (often rural) community whose members share work and income; V: exchange thoughts or feelings; Ex. commune with nature
The meaning of the word commune is small (often rural) community whose members share work and income; V: exchange thoughts or feelings; Ex. commune with nature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abbreviate | shorten |
| hyperbole | exaggeration; overstatement; ADJ. hyperbolic: of hyperbole; of a hyperbola |
| atavism | resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback; ADJ. atavistic |
| veracious | (of a person) truthful |
| ambivalence | the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions |
| engender | cause; produce; give rise to |
| proclivity | inclination; natural tendency (esp. towards something bad) |
| exact | demand and obtain by force; Ex. exact a promise from him; N. exaction |
| sacrosanct | invioably sacred; most sacred; inviolable |
| polemical | aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious (rather than simply expressing opinions) |
