GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| random | a haphazard course |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| trenchant | keen |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |