GRE Word List
PERSPICUOUS
plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation
The meaning of the word perspicuous is plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jostle | to come in contact or into collision |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| finery | ornament |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |