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 |
|---|---|
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| remit | to lay aside (a mood or disposition) partly or wholly |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| maroon | a dark red |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |