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 |
|---|---|
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |