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 |
|---|---|
| apparition | an unusual or unexpected sight : phenomenon |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| throes | pang |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| phylum | a direct line of descent within a group |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |