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 |
|---|---|
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| gale | a strong current of air: |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |