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 |
|---|---|
| oversee | survey |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |