GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| dour | stern |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |