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 |
|---|---|
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |