GRE Word List
DISCRETE
constituting a separate entity : individually distinct
The meaning of the word discrete is constituting a separate entity : individually distinct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| fleet | a number of warships under a single command |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| wastrel | vagabond |