GRE Word List
ACUMEN
keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters
The meaning of the word acumen is keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stultify | to have a dulling or inhibiting effect on |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| brawny | muscular |