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 |
|---|---|
| heed | to pay attention |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |