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 |
|---|---|
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |