GRE Word List
INQUISITOR
one who inquires or makes inquisition
The meaning of the word inquisitor is one who inquires or makes inquisition.
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| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |