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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| forlorn | bereft |
| plebiscite | a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |