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 |
|---|---|
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| ogle | to glance with amorous invitation or challenge |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |