GRE Word List
OVERTURE
an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal
The meaning of the word overture is an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| grudging | unwilling |
| calculated | apt |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| hubbub | noise |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |