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 |
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| repercussion | reflection |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |