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 |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
| liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| quail | any of numerous small gallinaceous birds: such as |
| repercussion | reflection |