GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
contest | strive |
litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |