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 |
|---|---|
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| throes | pang |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance : lively |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |