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 |
|---|---|
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| prong | fork |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |