GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| comity | friendly social atmosphere : social harmony |
| magniloquent | speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| scaffold | a temporary or movable platform for workers (such as bricklayers, painters, or miners) to stand or sit on when working at a height above the floor or ground |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |