GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| equanimity | evenness of mind especially under stress |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| rift | fissure |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| fervent | very hot : glowing |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |