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 |
|---|---|
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
| forebears | ancestor |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| wastrel | vagabond |
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