GRE Word List
BRITTLE
easily broken, cracked, or snapped
The meaning of the word brittle is easily broken, cracked, or snapped.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |