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 |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| exculpate | to clear from alleged fault or guilt |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| layman | a person who is not a member of the clergy |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |