GRE Word List
PHARISEE
a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
The meaning of the word pharisee is a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| reverie | daydream |
| exhume | disinter |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| forebears | ancestor |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |