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 |
|---|---|
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| 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 |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| cipher | zero |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |