GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
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| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
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| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
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| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
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