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 |
|---|---|
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| cordon | an ornamental cord or ribbon |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |