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 |
|---|---|
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| refulgent | a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| slight | having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| demented | mad |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| dire | exciting horror |