GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |