GRE Word List
GIST
essence; main point; substance
The meaning of the word gist is essence; main point; substance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| random | a haphazard course |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |