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 |
|---|---|
| amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| stock | a store or supply accumulated or available |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |