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 |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| arduous | hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| document | proof |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |