GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |