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 |
|---|---|
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| fete | festival |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| machinations | an act of machinating |