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 |
|---|---|
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| aperture | an opening or open space : hole |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| duration | continuance in time |
| malapropism | the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase |
| defalcate | deduct |