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 |
|---|---|
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| pugilist | fighter |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| irretrievable | not retrievable : impossible to regain or recover |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |