GRE Word List
BRISK
keenly alert : lively
The meaning of the word brisk is keenly alert : lively.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| carat | a unit of fineness for gold equal to ¹/₂₄ part of pure gold in an alloy |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |