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 |
|---|---|
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| canker | an erosive or spreading sore |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |