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 |
|---|---|
| serendipity | the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| orthodox | conforming to established doctrine especially in religion |