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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expound | to set forth : state |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |