GRE Word List
EDIFY
to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift
The meaning of the word edify is to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift.
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| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| ploy | escapade |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| reminiscent | of the character of or relating to reminiscence |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| provenance | origin |
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