GRE Word List

DISCRETION

individual choice or judgment

The meaning of the word discretion is individual choice or judgment.

Random words

WordMeaning
reproveto scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent
reprisea musical repetition:
delusivelikely to delude
diluteattenuate
effronteryshameless boldness : insolence
penologya branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
visionaryhaving or marked by foresight and imagination
cavaliermarked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
noveltysomething new or unusual