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 |
|---|---|
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| wry | twist |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |