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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| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| whimsy | whim |