GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| overweening | arrogant |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| replenish | to fill or build up again |