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 |
|---|---|
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| commune | talk over |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |