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 |
|---|---|
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| incendiary | igniting combustible materials spontaneously |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| debase | to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |