GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| bauble | trinket |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |