GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| clime | climate |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| precarious | dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments |