GRE Word List
PUNCTILIOUS
marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions
The meaning of the word punctilious is marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| apprehend | arrest |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |