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 |
|---|---|
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| fancier | one that has a special liking or interest |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |