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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| ram | a male sheep |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |