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 |
|---|---|
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| acclaim | applaud |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| relinquish | to withdraw or retreat from : leave behind |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |