GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |