GRE Word List
BRUSQUE
markedly short and abrupt
The meaning of the word brusque is markedly short and abrupt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| commodious | comfortably or conveniently spacious : roomy |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |