GRE Word List
IRREVERENCE
lack of reverence
The meaning of the word irreverence is lack of reverence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| appease | pacify |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |