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.
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| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |