GRE Word List
DISCURSIVE
moving from topic to topic without order : rambling
The meaning of the word discursive is moving from topic to topic without order : rambling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inerrancy | exemption from error : infallibility |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| antiquity | ancient times |