GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| encumber | weigh down |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| dint | force |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |