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 |
|---|---|
| embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |