GRE Word List
SANCTUARY
a consecrated place: such as
The meaning of the word sanctuary is a consecrated place: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| kneel | to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |