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 |
|---|---|
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| forlorn | bereft |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |