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 |
|---|---|
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| peerless | matchless |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |