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 |
|---|---|
| defalcate | deduct |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| finery | ornament |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |