GRE Word List
LACONIC
using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
The meaning of the word laconic is using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| sophist | philosopher |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |