GRE Word List
DISCERNING
showing insight and understanding : discriminating
The meaning of the word discerning is showing insight and understanding : discriminating.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| bountiful | liberal or generous in bestowing gifts or favors |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
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