GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |