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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quipa clever usually taunting remark : gibe
fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
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blareto sound loud and strident