GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| poise | balance |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |