GRE Word List
SIBYLLINE
any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)
The meaning of the word sibylline is any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy).
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| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
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| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
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| consecrate | dedicated to a sacred purpose |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |