GRE Word List
ADVENT
the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
The meaning of the word advent is the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting.
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| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
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| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |