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 |
|---|---|
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| scrutinize | to examine closely and minutely |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| malediction | curse |
| fete | festival |
| foray | a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils : raid |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |