GRE Word List
ANATHEMA
someone or something intensely disliked or loathed
The meaning of the word anathema is someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| plait | pleat |
| nourish | nurture |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |