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 |
|---|---|
| rightful | just |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |