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 |
|---|---|
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| violate | break |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| forego | to go before : precede |