GRE Word List
ORIENT
to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group
The meaning of the word orient is to direct (something, such as a book or film) toward the interests of a particular group.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |