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 |
|---|---|
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| shaving | the act of one that shaves |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |