GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |