GRE Word List
EDIFICE
building
The meaning of the word edifice is building.
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| isthmus | a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| amity | friendship |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hidden place : waylay |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| diffidence | the quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |