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 |
|---|---|
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| raiment | clothing |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| fulcrum | prop |
| 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 |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |