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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| oversee | survey |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |