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.
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| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| precinct | a part of a territory with definite bounds or functions often established for administrative purposes : district |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |