GRE Word List
PONDEROUS
of very great weight
The meaning of the word ponderous is of very great weight.
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|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
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| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |
| enclave | a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
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