GRE Word List
PAROCHIAL
of or relating to a church parish
The meaning of the word parochial is of or relating to a church parish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
