GRE Word List
PERFUNCTORY
characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical
The meaning of the word perfunctory is characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical.
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| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
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| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
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| figment | something made up or contrived |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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