GRE Word List
EXPERTISE
the skill of an expert
The meaning of the word expertise is the skill of an expert.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |