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 |
|---|---|
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| gnome | maxim |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |