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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discretionindividual choice or judgment
conventionalformed by agreement or compact
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verisimilitudethe quality or state of being verisimilar
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primaryfirst in order of time or development : primitive
spatialrelating to, occupying, or having the character of space
scintillaspark
retractto draw back or in