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 |
|---|---|
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| dais | a raised platform (as in a hall or large room) |
| 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 |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |