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 |
|---|---|
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| slew | a large number |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| regime | regimen |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |