GRE Word List
SCHISM
division
The meaning of the word schism is division.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| retrench | cut down |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |