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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| etymology | the 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 |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| implode | to burst inward |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |