GRE Word List
SALIENT
moving by leaps or springs : jumping
The meaning of the word salient is moving by leaps or springs : jumping.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| methodical | arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| defalcate | deduct |