GRE Word List
RELIGIOUS
relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
The meaning of the word religious is relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |