GRE Word List
SYNOPTIC
affording a general view of a whole
The meaning of the word synoptic is affording a general view of a whole.
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| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |