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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WordMeaning
amenitiessomething that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment
casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
summationthe act or process of forming a sum : addition
potablesuitable for drinking
pragmatista practical approach to problems and affairs
symbiosisthe living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism)
stocka store or supply accumulated or available
defameto harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel
divestto deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title
irrelevantnot relevant : inapplicable