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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| broil | to cook by direct exposure to radiant heat : grill |
| defiance | the act or an instance of defying : challenge |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |