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 |
|---|---|
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| paradigm | example |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |