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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| osseous | bony |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |