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 |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| defect | an imperfection or abnormality that impairs quality, function, or utility : shortcoming |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |