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 |
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| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| renown | a state of being widely acclaimed and highly honored : fame |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| rococo | rococo work or style |