GRE Word List
PHILISTINE
a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
The meaning of the word philistine is a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia.
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| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |