GRE Word List
DURATION
continuance in time
The meaning of the word duration is continuance in time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| stilted | pompous |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |