GRE Word List
ALACRITY
promptness in response : cheerful readiness
The meaning of the word alacrity is promptness in response : cheerful readiness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| propriety | the quality or state of being proper or suitable : appropriateness |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| forward | near, being at, or belonging to the forepart |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |