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 |
|---|---|
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| paltry | inferior |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| dilute | attenuate |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |