GRE Word List
SACRILEGIOUS
committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object
The meaning of the word sacrilegious is committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| dire | exciting horror |
| poise | balance |
| prattle | prate |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |