GRE Word List
EXCERPT
a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract
The meaning of the word excerpt is a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| epitome | a typical or ideal example : embodiment |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| courier | messenger |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |