GRE Word List
CONCISE
marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail
The meaning of the word concise is marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| humdrum | monotonous |