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 |
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disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
sift | to put through a sieve |
sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |