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 |
|---|---|
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| totem | an object (such as an animal or plant) serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often as a reminder of its ancestry |
| mulct | fine |
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| din | a loud continued noise |