GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| devious | wandering |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |
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| seismic | of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |