GRE Word List
PARABLE
short simple story teaching a moral
The meaning of the word parable is short simple story teaching a moral.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| redress | remedy; compensation; Ex. seek redress for the damage to your car; V: put right; remedy or rectify (a wrong); make amends for |
| effluvium | noxious(harmful) smell |
| frenetic | frenzied; frantic |
| requisite | necessary requirement; something required; ADJ: required; necessary |
| allege | state without proof |
| bellicose | warlike |
| sophisticated | worldly wise and urbane; refined; complex; N. sophistication; V. sophisticate |
| scrutinize | examine closely and critically; N. scrutiny |
| orifice | mouthlike opening; small opening (esp. to a cavern or passage of the body); CF. mouth |
| sustenance | sustaining; means of livelihood, support, food, nourishment; something that maintains life; food |