GRE Word List

PONTIFICAL

episcopal attire

The meaning of the word pontifical is episcopal attire.

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bereavementthe state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone
soarto fly aloft or about
concedeto acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly
maternalof, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly
retrieveto locate and bring in (killed or wounded game)
centigraderelating 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
worldlyof, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs
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mercantileof or relating to merchants or trading
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