GRE Word List
PERFUNCTORY
characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical
The meaning of the word perfunctory is characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| nib | bill |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |