GRE Word List
DISCRETE
constituting a separate entity : individually distinct
The meaning of the word discrete is constituting a separate entity : individually distinct.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| bacchanalian | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| exemplify | to show or illustrate by example |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| demise | death |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |