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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| exude | to ooze out |