GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| dishearten | to cause to lose hope, enthusiasm, or courage : to cause to lose spirit or morale |
| microcosm | a little world |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |