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 |
|---|---|
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| stench | stink |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |