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 |
|---|---|
| brawny | muscular |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| welter | writhe |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |