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 |
|---|---|
| dingy | dirty |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
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