GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| executioner | one who executes |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |