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 |
|---|---|
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| mimicry | an instance of mimicking |
| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |