GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |