GRE Word List
TREATISE
a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached
The meaning of the word treatise is a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |