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 |
|---|---|
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |
| imprecation | curse |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| debonair | suave |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |