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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| implode | to burst inward |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |