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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| invert | to reverse in position, order, or relationship |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| multiplicity | the quality or state of being multiple or various |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |