GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| retiring | reserved |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| migrant | one that migrates: such as |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |