GRE Word List
DISCRIMINATING
making a distinction : distinguishing
The meaning of the word discriminating is making a distinction : distinguishing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| schism | division |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |