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 |
|---|---|
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |