GRE Word List
SALIENT
moving by leaps or springs : jumping
The meaning of the word salient is moving by leaps or springs : jumping.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |