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 |
|---|---|
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| impeccable | free from fault or blame : flawless |
| fete | festival |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| 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 |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
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