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 |
|---|---|
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| colloquy | conversation |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| prosody | the study of versification |