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 |
|---|---|
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| championship | designation as champion |