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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WordMeaning
paramountsuperior to all others : supreme
mysticmystical
alludeto make indirect reference
cloyingdisgusting or distasteful by reason of excess
sonorousproducing sound (as when struck)
aridexcessively dry
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval
capriciousgoverned or characterized by caprice : impulsive
parlancespeech
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter