GRE Word List
BREVITY
conciseness; shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is conciseness; shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grumble | complain; mutter discontentedly; grouch; N. |
| yield | amount produced; crop; income on investment; profit obtained from an investment; V: produce; give in; surrender |
| servitude | slavery; compulsory labor imposed as a punishment |
| servile | slavish; cringing; N. servility |
| unrequited | not requited; not reciprocated; Ex. unrequited love |
| canter | slow gallop; V. CF. trot |
| whittle | pare; cut away thin bits (from wood); fashion in this way; reduce gradually; trim |
| pretension | pretentiousness; claim (without foundation); Ex. I make no pretensions to skill as an artist. |
| mayhem | injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim |
| ovation | enthusiastic applause |
