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 |
|---|---|
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |