GRE Word List
FIGURATIVE
representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic
The meaning of the word figurative is representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| amity | friendship |
| economy | the structure or conditions of economic life in a country, area, or period |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |