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 |
|---|---|
| contiguous | being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |