GRE Word List
ADROIT
having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations
The meaning of the word adroit is having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| resurge | to undergo a resurgence |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
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| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
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