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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stipenda fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses
finickyextremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards
actuateto put into mechanical action or motion
trajectorythe curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space
sidetracksiding
salvagecompensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck
perpetrateto bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit
belateddelayed beyond the usual time
bedizento dress or adorn gaudily
thronga multitude of assembled persons