GRE Word List
PRODIGY
a highly talented child or youth
The meaning of the word prodigy is a highly talented child or youth.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |