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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| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
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| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| collected | gathered together |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
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| grill | to broil on a grill |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
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