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 |
|---|---|
| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
