GRE Word List
PROVERB
a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage
The meaning of the word proverb is a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ยน/โโ millimeter or less in diameter |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| rotunda | a round building |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |