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 |
|---|---|
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |