GRE Word List

PADRE

a Christian clergyman

The meaning of the word padre is a Christian clergyman.

Random words

WordMeaning
incarnateinvested with bodily and especially human nature and form
expansivehaving a capacity or a tendency to expand
cajoleto persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax
mammalany 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
throttleto compress the throat of : choke
salvagecompensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
corpulenthaving a large bulky body : obese
commiserateto feel or express sympathy : condole
duressforcible restraint or restriction