GRE Word List
FACULTY
ability
The meaning of the word faculty is ability.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| transgression | an act, process, or instance of transgressing: such as |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |