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 |
|---|---|
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| provenance | origin |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |