GRE Word List

CANNY

clever

The meaning of the word canny is clever.

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qualifiedfitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent
executorone who executes something
coteriean intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
arsenalan establishment for the manufacture or storage of arms and military equipment
pterodactylany of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition
implementa device used in the performance of a task : tool
stunto make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze
magnanimitythe quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity
taciturntemperamentally disinclined to talk
ethnicof or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background