GRE Word List
HALLOWED
holy
The meaning of the word hallowed is holy.
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refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
condign | deserved |
abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
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 |
fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |