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 |
|---|---|
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| fulcrum | prop |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |