GRE Word List
ALACRITY
promptness in response : cheerful readiness
The meaning of the word alacrity is promptness in response : cheerful readiness.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| debonair | suave |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary or normal : superfluous |
| raiment | clothing |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |