GRE Word List
SCHISM
division
The meaning of the word schism is division.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| hallowed | holy |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |