GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| omnipotent | almighty |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |