GRE Word List
DISCRETION
individual choice or judgment
The meaning of the word discretion is individual choice or judgment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| unfrock | defrock |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |