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 |
|---|---|
| catechism | oral instruction |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| canny | clever |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |