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 |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| regime | regimen |
| sidetrack | siding |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |