GRE Word List
DEXTEROUS
mentally adroit and skillful : clever
The meaning of the word dexterous is mentally adroit and skillful : clever.
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halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
championship | designation as champion |
compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
fester | to generate pus |
rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |