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 |
|---|---|
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |