GRE Word List

SYMMETRY

balanced proportions

The meaning of the word symmetry is balanced proportions.

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nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
wagea payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis
omnivorousfeeding on both animal and vegetable substances
citadela fortress that commands (see command
optimumthe amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
pestilentialcausing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly
plumea feather of a bird: such as
foreshadowto represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure
defameto harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel