GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |