GRE Word List
PARAPHRASE
a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form
The meaning of the word paraphrase is a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| address | to mark directions for delivery on |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| tome | book |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| concatenate | linked together |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| amnesty | the act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |