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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| antecede | precede |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| reckon | count |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |