GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| mantle | a loose sleeveless garment worn over other clothes : cloak |
| seemly | good-looking |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |