GRE Word List
KNACK
a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach
The meaning of the word knack is a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |