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 |
|---|---|
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| studied | carefully considered or prepared : thoughtful |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |