GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |