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 |
|---|---|
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| uproar | a state of commotion, excitement, or violent disturbance |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| clime | climate |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |