GRE Word List
PARAGON
a model of excellence or perfection
The meaning of the word paragon is a model of excellence or perfection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| factotum | a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |