GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |