GRE Word List
DISCERNING
showing insight and understanding : discriminating
The meaning of the word discerning is showing insight and understanding : discriminating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| significant | having meaning |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| prattle | prate |
| potentate | ruler |
| dull | tedious |
| 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 |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |