GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| bulk | magnitude |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |