GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |