GRE Word List
TERSE
using few words : devoid of superfluity
The meaning of the word terse is using few words : devoid of superfluity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |