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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |