GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| portly | dignified |
| irate | roused to ire |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |