GRE Word List

DEXTEROUS

mentally adroit and skillful : clever

The meaning of the word dexterous is mentally adroit and skillful : clever.

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surfeitan overabundant supply : excess
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razeto destroy to the ground : demolish
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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
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