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 |
|---|---|
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| pitfall | trap |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
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| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
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| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |