GRE Word List
ABLUTION
the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite)
The meaning of the word ablution is the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| occident | west |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |