GRE Word List
GNOME
maxim
The meaning of the word gnome is maxim.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prosody | the study of versification |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| sybarite | voluptuary |