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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |