GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| viand | an item of food |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums, loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes |