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 |
|---|---|
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| faculty | ability |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| obscure | dark |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |