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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| aloof | removed or distant either physically or emotionally |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |