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 |
|---|---|
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| marrow | bone marrow |