GRE Word List
PRECIS
a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts
The meaning of the word precis is a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| whittle | a large knife |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |