GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| portly | dignified |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| dull | tedious |
| gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |