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 |
|---|---|
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |