GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| matinee | a musical or dramatic performance or social or public event held in the daytime and especially the afternoon |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |