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 |
|---|---|
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |