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 |
|---|---|
| mischance | bad luck |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| endue | provide |
| adjacent | not distant : nearby |
| 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 |
| ramification | branch |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| satiate | filled to satiety |