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 |
|---|---|
| expatriate | banish |
| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| clip | encompass |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |