GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |