GRE Word List

DURATION

continuance in time

The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.

Random words

WordMeaning
sententiousgiven to or abounding in aphoristic expression
prateto talk long and idly : chatter
transparenthaving the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid
sirenany of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
squeamisheasily nauseated : queasy
composurea calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession
strutto become turgid : swell
flukeflatfish
maimto mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously