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 |
|---|---|
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| attentive | mindful |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| nexus | connection |