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 |
|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| insomnia | prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep especially due to trouble falling asleep or staying asleep |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |