GRE Word List
DEVOUT
committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises
The meaning of the word devout is committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| contrive | devise |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| recast | to cast again |
| docile | easily taught |