GRE Word List
SYMMETRY
balanced proportions
The meaning of the word symmetry is balanced proportions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| mange | any 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 |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |