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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WordMeaning
compensatoryto be equivalent to : counterbalance
antecedeprecede
scavengeto remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area
hypotheticalinvolving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural
etymologythe 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
reckoncount
declivitydownward inclination
deviateto stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic
ordinancean authoritative decree or direction : order
parameteran arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves)