GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| coin | corner |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| impetuous | marked by impulsive vehemence or passion |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |