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 |
|---|---|
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| beware | to be on one's guard |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |