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 |
|---|---|
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| equine | of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| oligarchy | government by the few |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| mischance | bad luck |