GRE Word List
DISCRETION
individual choice or judgment
The meaning of the word discretion is individual choice or judgment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| prong | fork |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |