GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| conjecture | inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| alleviate | relieve |
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| rift | fissure |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| bevy | a large group or collection |