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 |
|---|---|
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| scion | descendant |
| apparition | an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |