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 |
|---|---|
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| overweening | arrogant |
| docile | easily taught |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |