GRE Word List

GLUTTON

one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking

The meaning of the word glutton is one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking.

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phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
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