GRE Word List
DISCRIMINATING
making a distinction : distinguishing
The meaning of the word discriminating is making a distinction : distinguishing.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| grate | grating |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| entice | to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire : tempt |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |