GRE Word List
RELIC
an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr
The meaning of the word relic is an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| stupefy | to make stupid, groggy, or insensible |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |