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 |
|---|---|
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |