GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |