GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dominant | commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
| devious | wandering |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| consort | associate |