GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |