GRE Word List
CHAPLAIN
a clergyman in charge of a chapel
The meaning of the word chaplain is a clergyman in charge of a chapel.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| edifice | building |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |