GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stringent | tight |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| slag | the dross or scoria of a metal |
| brazen | made of brass |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |