GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| benison | blessing |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |