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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |