GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
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|---|---|
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| dys- | abnormal |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |