GRE Word List
PREDILECTION
an established preference for something
The meaning of the word predilection is an established preference for something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| circlet | a little circle |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |