GRE Word List
IDOLATRY
the worship of a physical object as a god
The meaning of the word idolatry is the worship of a physical object as a god.
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| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| calculated | apt |
| approbation | commendation |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| belie | to give a false impression of |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |