GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| composure | a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| fluke | flatfish |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |