GRE Word List
SAVANT
a person of learning
The meaning of the word savant is a person of learning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| graduate | to receive an academic degree or diploma |
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| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |