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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venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
reverie | daydream |
taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
patent | open to public inspection |