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 |
|---|---|
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| document | proof |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |