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 |
|---|---|
| condiments | something used to enhance the flavor of food |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| fundamental | serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function : basic |
| peerless | matchless |