GRE Word List

SHREWD

marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen

The meaning of the word shrewd is marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen.

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pigmenta substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials
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expurgateto cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous
gentlefree from harshness, sternness, or violence
truncateto shorten by or as if by cutting off
putativecommonly accepted or supposed
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gnomemaxim
atoneto make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome