GRE Word List
TERSE
using few words : devoid of superfluity
The meaning of the word terse is using few words : devoid of superfluity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |