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 |
|---|---|
| equitable | having or exhibiting equity : dealing fairly and equally with all concerned |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |