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 |
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| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |