GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| license | permission to act |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| natal | native |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |