GRE Word List

DURATION

continuance in time

The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.

Random words

WordMeaning
haltingmarked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness
randoma haphazard course
germa small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts
kneadto work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands
anthropoidany of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets)
putativecommonly accepted or supposed
pinchto squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument
trenchantkeen
munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
outcastone that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah