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 |
|---|---|
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| nomenclature | name |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |