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 |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| seismic | of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake |
| rake | an implement equipped with projecting prongs to gather material (such as leaves) or for loosening or smoothing the surface of the ground |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |