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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| hirsute | hairy |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| overweening | arrogant |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |