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 |
|---|---|
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| hardy | bold |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |