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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| adjuration | a solemn oath |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| crass | gross |