GRE Word List
CELERITY
rapidity of motion or action
The meaning of the word celerity is rapidity of motion or action.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stalwart | marked by outstanding strength and vigor of body, mind, or spirit |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| 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 |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |