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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|---|---|
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| tarnish | to dull or destroy the luster of by or as if by air, dust, or dirt : soil |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| decipher | decode |
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| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |