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 |
|---|---|
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| cryptic | secret |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |