GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| farce | stuff |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |