GRE Word List
SYMMETRY
balanced proportions
The meaning of the word symmetry is balanced proportions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |