GRE Word List
PADRE
a Christian clergyman
The meaning of the word padre is a Christian clergyman.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |