GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| spoof | deceive |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |