GRE Word List
SENTIENT
responsive to or conscious of sense impressions
The meaning of the word sentient is responsive to or conscious of sense impressions.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| resort | one that affords aid or refuge : resource |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |