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 |
|---|---|
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| collate | to compare critically |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| provenance | origin |