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 |
|---|---|
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| clown | farmer |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| levee | a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |