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 |
|---|---|
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| scintilla | spark |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| savant | a person of learning |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |