GRE Word List
INTERDICT
a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district
The meaning of the word interdict is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |