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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| contrite | feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
