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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ingenuousshowing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
macabrehaving death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
amorousstrongly moved by love and especially sexual love
alloythe degree of mixture with base metals : fineness
embitterto excite bitter feelings in
omnipresentpresent in all places at all times
vociferousmarked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
implodeto burst inward
leonineof, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion