GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |