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 |
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| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| overwhelm | upset |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |