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 |
|---|---|
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
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