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 |
|---|---|
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |