GRE Word List
VENIAL
of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable
The meaning of the word venial is of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| overthrow | overturn |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |