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 |
|---|---|
| apprise | to give notice to : tell |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| fancier | one that has a special liking or interest |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| pugilist | fighter |