GRE Word List
ZEAL
eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor
The meaning of the word zeal is eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| protocol | an original draft, minute, or record of a document or transaction |
| overthrow | overturn |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |