GRE Word List
CURSORY
rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty
The meaning of the word cursory is rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| demerit | offense |
| mettle | vigor and strength of spirit or temperament (see temperament |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |