GRE Word List
DISCRETION
individual choice or judgment
The meaning of the word discretion is individual choice or judgment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| violate | break |
| acumen | keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |