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 |
|---|---|
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| freebooter | pirate |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |