GRE Word List
MONOTHEISM
the doctrine or belief that there is but one God
The meaning of the word monotheism is the doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| 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 |
| dour | stern |
| errant | behaving wrongly |