GRE Word List
LAITY
the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy
The meaning of the word laity is the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |