GRE Word List
HOMILY
a usually short sermon
The meaning of the word homily is a usually short sermon.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| seemly | good-looking |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |