GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
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eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
ascertain | to find out or learn with certainty |
yen | a strong desire or propensity |
natation | the action or art of swimming |
guileless | innocent |
prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |