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 |
|---|---|
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| ecologist | a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
| forensic | belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |