GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vulgar | lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |