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 |
|---|---|
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |