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 |
|---|---|
| distend | extend |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| glut | to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| throes | pang |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |