GRE Word List
AGNOSTIC
a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
The meaning of the word agnostic is a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| finery | ornament |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| demented | mad |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |