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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| mystic | mystical |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| arid | excessively dry |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| parlance | speech |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |