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 |
|---|---|
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |