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 |
|---|---|
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |