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 |
|---|---|
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| courier | messenger |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| mystic | mystical |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |