GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expatriate | banish |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| betray | to lead astray |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |