GRE Word List
PERSONIFY
to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers
The meaning of the word personify is to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| limp | to walk lamely |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |