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 |
|---|---|
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| steep | lofty |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| entity | being |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |