GRE Word List
METROPOLIS
large city
The meaning of the word metropolis is large city.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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accrue | come to one as a gain; accumulate over time; come about by addition; Ex. benefits that accrue from scientific research; Ex. interest accruing in a bank account; N. accrual |
ludicrous | laughable; ridiculous; trifling |
carousal | drunken revel; V. carouse |
mutablility | ability to change in form; fickleness; ADJ. mutable: able to change; fickle; CF. mutate; CF. mutant |
reckon | count; calculate; regard as; think; suppose |
dilate | expand; dilate on/upon: speak or write at length on (a subject) |
engross | occupy fully; absorb |
espionage | spying |
correlate | either of the correlated things; V. |
imponderable | weightless; that cannot undergo precise evaluation; CF. pound |