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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| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| avalanche | a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice |
| slake | subside |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |