GRE Word List
MONASTIC
of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns
The meaning of the word monastic is of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |