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 |
|---|---|
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
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| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |