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 |
|---|---|
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| condole | grieve |
| inquisitor | one who inquires or makes inquisition |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |