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 |
|---|---|
| concur | to express agreement |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| fulcrum | prop |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| superimpose | to place or lay over or above something |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |