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 |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| speck | a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| license | permission to act |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |