GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| scion | descendant |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |