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 |
|---|---|
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| gusty | the sensation of taste |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |