GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| random | a haphazard course |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |