GRE Word List
CANNY
clever
The meaning of the word canny is clever.
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|---|---|
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |