GRE Word List

SAVANT

a person of learning

The meaning of the word savant is a person of learning.

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inhibitto prohibit from doing something
baitto persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks
ostentatiousattracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation
vultureany of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
soliloquythe act of talking to oneself
exaltto raise in rank, power, or character
perfidiousof, relating to, or characterized by perfidy
pithyconsisting of or abounding in pith