GRE Word List
MAGISTRATE
an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as
The meaning of the word magistrate is an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |