GRE Word List
MILITIA
a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency
The meaning of the word militia is a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable to call only in emergency.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| harass | exhaust |