GRE Word List
MICROCOSM
a little world
The meaning of the word microcosm is a little world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |