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 |
|---|---|
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| sophist | philosopher |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| addle | rotten |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |