GRE Word List
TRIBUTE
something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved
The meaning of the word tribute is something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| intermediary | mediator |