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 |
|---|---|
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |