GRE Word List
APTITUDE
inclination
The meaning of the word aptitude is inclination.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| etymology | the 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 |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| leery | suspicious |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |