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 |
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| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| prattle | prate |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |