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 |
|---|---|
| scourge | whip |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| lank | not well filled out : slender |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| stipulate | to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something : contract |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |