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 |
|---|---|
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| impinge | encroach |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| canny | clever |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |