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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|---|---|
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| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
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| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
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| microcosm | a little world |
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