GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| acquittal | a setting free from the charge of an offense by verdict, sentence, or other legal process |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |