GRE Word List
PARISH
the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor
The meaning of the word parish is the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| daub | to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter : plaster |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |
| blackball | to vote against |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| invalid | not valid: |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |