GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |