GRE Word List
FACULTY
ability
The meaning of the word faculty is ability.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |