GRE Word List
DISCRIMINATE
to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of
The meaning of the word discriminate is to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| dour | stern |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |