GRE Word List
PROSAIC
characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual
The meaning of the word prosaic is characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| imbue | endow |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| crass | gross |