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 |
|---|---|
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |