GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| dearth | scarcity that makes dear |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |