GRE Word List
NOVICE
a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community
The meaning of the word novice is a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |