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 |
|---|---|
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |