GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| victuals | food usable by people |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |