GRE Word List
BRUSQUE
markedly short and abrupt
The meaning of the word brusque is markedly short and abrupt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| magnate | a person of rank, power, influence, or distinction often in a specified area |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |