GRE Word List
INTELLIGENTSIA
intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite
The meaning of the word intelligentsia is intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |