GRE Word List
INTELLECT
the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
The meaning of the word intellect is the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
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| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
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| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |