GRE Word List
BREVITY
shortness of duration
The meaning of the word brevity is shortness of duration.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |