GRE Word List
EPHEMERAL
lasting a very short time
The meaning of the word ephemeral is lasting a very short time.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| plethora | an ample amount or number : abundance |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| enumerate | to ascertain the number of : count |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |