GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game (such as hare or pheasant) |
| warranted | sanction |
| rider | one that rides |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |