GRE Word List
PADRE
a Christian clergyman
The meaning of the word padre is a Christian clergyman.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tome | book |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| headlong | headfirst |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| amity | friendship |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |