GRE Word List
CANNY
clever
The meaning of the word canny is clever.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| loathe | to dislike greatly and often with disgust or intolerance : detest |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| 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 |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |