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 |
|---|---|
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |