GRE Word List

ASCETIC

practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

The meaning of the word ascetic is practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline.

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sarcasma sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
innocuousproducing no injury : harmless
inherentinvolved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic
stricturean abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage
bristlinga short stiff coarse hair or filament
sporadicoccurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
grossglaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness
rationalhaving reason or understanding
phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
manifoldmarked by diversity or variety