GRE Word List
IMPIETY
the quality or state of being impious : irreverence
The meaning of the word impiety is the quality or state of being impious : irreverence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |