GRE Word List
CAUCUS
a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy
The meaning of the word caucus is a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seemly | good-looking |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |