GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| drudge | to do hard, menial, or monotonous work |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| contrive | devise |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |