GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
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|---|---|
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| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
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| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
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