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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| poise | balance |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| natal | native |
| demur | to take exception : object |