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 |
|---|---|
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |