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 |
|---|---|
| chafe | irritate |
| fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| unfrock | defrock |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |