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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| verdant | green in tint or color |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |