GRE Word List
LAYMAN
a person who is not a member of the clergy
The meaning of the word layman is a person who is not a member of the clergy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |