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 |
|---|---|
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| appease | pacify |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |