GRE Word List
INTUITION
the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference
The meaning of the word intuition is the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |