GRE Word List
COLLATION
a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper
The meaning of the word collation is a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |