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 |
|---|---|
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |