GRE Word List
VENERABLE
calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments
The meaning of the word venerable is calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| trance | stupor |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
| battalion | a considerable body of troops organized to act together : army |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |