GRE Word List
PADRE
a Christian clergyman
The meaning of the word padre is a Christian clergyman.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| impartial | not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| irate | roused to ire |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| petty | having secondary rank or importance : minor |