GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |