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 |
|---|---|
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| compulsion | an act of compelling |
| distend | extend |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| ingratiate | to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort |