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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| tome | book |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| missive | a written communication : letter |