GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| environ | encircle |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |
| forlorn | bereft |
| striated | marked with striations or striae |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| wanton | merciless |