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 |
|---|---|
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| condign | deserved |