GRE Word List
CELERITY
rapidity of motion or action
The meaning of the word celerity is rapidity of motion or action.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| thermal | of, relating to, or caused by heat |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |