GRE Word List
DISCRETION
individual choice or judgment
The meaning of the word discretion is individual choice or judgment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pilfer | steal |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| calculated | apt |