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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WordMeaning
spoonerisma transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)
secreteto form and give off (a secretion)
variegatedhaving discrete markings of different colors
miragean optical (see optical
inalienableincapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred
attentivemindful
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
talonthe claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey
elevationthe height to which something is elevated: such as
nexusconnection