GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| denomination | an act of denominating |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| forte | one's strong point |