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 |
|---|---|
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| sledge | sledgehammer |