GRE Word List
LONGEVITY
a long duration of individual life
The meaning of the word longevity is a long duration of individual life.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| blurt | to utter abruptly and impulsively |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |