GRE Word List
COGNITIVE
of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering)
The meaning of the word cognitive is of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| pliant | pliable |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |