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 |
|---|---|
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |