GRE Word List
BRUSQUE
markedly short and abrupt
The meaning of the word brusque is markedly short and abrupt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |