GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
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| exhale | to rise or be given off as vapor |
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| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| overwhelm | upset |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |