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.
Random words
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| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| propulsive | tending or having power to propel |
| fortuitous | occurring by chance |