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
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| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
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| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| unfrock | defrock |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| forerunner | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another: such as |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |