GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| shove | to push along |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| sonic | utilizing, produced by, or relating to sound waves |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |