GRE Word List
GNOME
maxim
The meaning of the word gnome is maxim.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mat | a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |