GRE Word List
LAYMAN
a person who is not a member of the clergy
The meaning of the word layman is a person who is not a member of the clergy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| sheer | unqualified |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| brook | creek |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| scion | descendant |