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 |
|---|---|
| suppliant | supplicant |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |