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 |
|---|---|
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| impuissance | weakness |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |