GRE Word List
PIOUS
marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship
The meaning of the word pious is marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| exhume | disinter |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |