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 |
|---|---|
| retrench | cut down |
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| longevity | a long duration of individual life |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |