GRE Word List
PERSPICUITY
plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation
The meaning of the word perspicuity is plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |