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 |
|---|---|
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| hue | overall character or appearance to the mind : complexion |
| document | proof |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |