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 |
|---|---|
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
| provident | frugal |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |