GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| rift | fissure |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |