GRE Word List
GNOME
maxim
The meaning of the word gnome is maxim.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| auroral | dawn |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |