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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shambles | a meat market |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| consign | to give over to another's care |