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 |
|---|---|
| prance | to spring from the hind legs or move by so doing |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| debonair | suave |