GRE Word List
KEN
the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge
The meaning of the word ken is the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dilute | attenuate |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |