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 |
|---|---|
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |