GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| laud | praise |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |