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 |
|---|---|
| swill | wash |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| revoke | to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |