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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |