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 |
|---|---|
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| prevalent | generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |