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.
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| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
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| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
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| crescendo | a gradual increase |
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| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |