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 |
|---|---|
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |