GRE Word List
METROPOLIS
the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region
The meaning of the word metropolis is the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| prong | fork |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| epitome | a typical or ideal example : embodiment |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |