GRE Word List

SAVANT

a person of learning

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

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magistratean official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as
expungeto strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion
reconnaissancea preliminary survey to gain information
excisean internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity
phlegmaticresembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm
asceticpracticing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline
fidelitythe quality or state of being faithful
aberrantdeviating from the usual or natural type : atypical
sophomoricconceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature
recidivisma tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior