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 |
|---|---|
| trappings | outward signs |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |