GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| accretion | the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |