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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| viand | an item of food |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |