GRE Word List
SYMMETRY
balanced proportions
The meaning of the word symmetry is balanced proportions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| violate | break |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |