GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |