GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |