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 |
|---|---|
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |