GRE Word List
BRUSQUE
markedly short and abrupt
The meaning of the word brusque is markedly short and abrupt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| devious | wandering |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
