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 |
|---|---|
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |