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 |
|---|---|
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| decipher | decode |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |