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 |
|---|---|
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |