GRE Word List
PROFANE
to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate
The meaning of the word profane is to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |