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 |
|---|---|
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |