GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
| imprecation | curse |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| upright | perpendicular |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
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