GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |