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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WordMeaning
partisana firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person
divineof, relating to, or proceeding directly from God (see god
bovineof, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow
transcendentexceeding usual limits : surpassing
spliceto unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands
simperto smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner
missilecapable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object
welta strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together
begrudgeto give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure
abstrusedifficult to comprehend : recondite