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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| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |