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 |
|---|---|
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| influx | a coming in |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| bovine | of, relating to, or resembling bovines and especially the ox or cow |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |