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.

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prodigiouscausing amazement or wonder
unmitigatednot lessened : unrelieved
dynamicmarked by usually continuous and productive activity or change
avariceexcessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness
confiscateappropriated by the government : forfeited
shunto avoid deliberately and especially habitually
culminationthe action of culminating
precociousexceptionally early in development or occurrence
vultureany of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion
arteryany of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body