GRE Word List
SAVANT
a person of learning
The meaning of the word savant is a person of learning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |