GRE Word List
SECULAR
of or relating to the worldly or temporal
The meaning of the word secular is of or relating to the worldly or temporal.
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|---|---|
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| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| apropos | being both relevant and opportune |
| lewd | obscene |