GRE Word List
PARABLE
a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle
The meaning of the word parable is a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
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| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
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| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
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