GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| invalid | not valid: |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| blue | of the color whose hue is that of the clear sky : of the color blue (see blue |