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 |
|---|---|
| superannuated | outmoded |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| fulcrum | prop |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |