GRE Word List
CONSECRATE
dedicated to a sacred purpose
The meaning of the word consecrate is dedicated to a sacred purpose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |