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 |
|---|---|
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| inert | lacking the power to move |