GRE Word List
BENEDICTION
the invocation (see invocation
The meaning of the word benediction is the invocation (see invocation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| forebears | ancestor |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |