GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| contest | strive |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
