GRE Word List
DISCRETION
individual choice or judgment
The meaning of the word discretion is individual choice or judgment.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
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| lode | waterway |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |