GRE Word List

MARTYR

a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion

The meaning of the word martyr is a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion.

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quashto suppress or extinguish summarily and completely
mangleto injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing
reparteea quick and witty reply
awla pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood)
orthodoxconforming to established doctrine especially in religion
interpolateto alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter
sheatheto put into or furnish with a sheath