GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |