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 |
|---|---|
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| paramour | lover |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |