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 |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| tablet | a flat slab or plaque suited for or bearing an inscription |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene |