GRE Word List
PEDESTAL
the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration
The meaning of the word pedestal is the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| sear | being dried and withered |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
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| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
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| pedestrian | commonplace |