GRE Word List
PONTIFICAL
episcopal attire
The meaning of the word pontifical is episcopal attire.
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| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| doddering | feeble |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |