GRE Word List
SYNOPTIC
affording a general view of a whole
The meaning of the word synoptic is affording a general view of a whole.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |