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 |
|---|---|
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| bitter | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, and often disagreeable and characteristic of citrus peels, unsweetened cocoa, black coffee, mature leafy greens (such as kale or mustard), or ale |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| whittle | a large knife |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |