GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guileless | innocent |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| longevity | a long duration of individual life |