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 |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| pundit | pandit |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| pantomime | pantomimist |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |